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$174,986–$209,983/yr
US Canada 6w PTO

  • Design and build core backend services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations.
  • Create a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation with tenant isolation, usage tracking, and reliable service boundaries.
  • Work across product and infrastructure to make practical tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability.

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$87,480–$110,160/yr
Europe 6w PTO

  • Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems for Grafana Cloud stacks at scale.
  • Collaborate across teams to improve reliability, deployment complexity, and incident response.
  • Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, and long-term simplification of stack operations.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open source observability platform Grafana, providing a fully managed observability cloud. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, the company fosters a global, collaborative culture rooted in open source principles.

US 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Collaborate with your team to deliver new features and iterate based on results.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open-source observability platform Grafana, providing a fully managed observability cloud. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries and 35 million users, the company thrives on a transparent, collaborative, and open-source culture.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Own features end-to-end across the stack, from backend Go services to frontend TypeScript/React.
  • Design and evolve systems for scheduling, probe lifecycle, and telemetry ingestion at scale.
  • Build cross-product and AI-assisted workflows that integrate Synthetic Monitoring into the Grafana Cloud platform.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open source observability cloud, helping organizations see and act on their data. With over 1,600 employees across 40+ countries, the company fosters an open, collaborative culture.

US Canada 6w PTO

  • Ship features end to end, from the UI to backend services and dashboards.
  • Move between parts of the stack, working with React, Go, and Jsonnet as needed.
  • Own projects from problem statement to production, including user feedback and success measurement.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, providing a flexible, scalable platform for monitoring and analyzing data. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, the company fosters a remote-first, collaborative culture built on transparency, autonomy, and trust.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives on Tempo's architecture, including trace aggregation APIs, autoscaling, and query engine improvements.
  • Drive operational excellence by owning SLOs, reducing toil, and ensuring Tempo operates reliably at scale across growing cell counts.
  • Design APIs for humans and agents, partner with product teams, and mentor engineers to raise the bar across the organization.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform built for scale. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, we are a 100% remote company backed by leading investors, fostering a global collaborative culture and a passion for meaningful work.

$145,500–$235,400/yr
US

  • Build and operate streaming and polling infrastructure for feature flag delivery.
  • Own projects end-to-end from design to production, including debugging and on-call.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and improve observability and reliability.

LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables developers to control software releases and target features to specific user segments. The company fosters a collaborative, inclusive culture and values diversity among its team.

$127,008–$152,410/yr
Ireland 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and your own career objectives.
  • Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations in customers' hands.
  • Mentor and support team members while collaborating in a remote-first environment.

Grafana Labs builds Grafana, the open-source observability platform, and Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability service. It's a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors and known for a collaborative open-source culture.

$163,000–$263,670/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs.
  • Own and improve the reliability, latency, and scalability of our streaming and polling infrastructure.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues while sharing the team's on-call rotation.

LaunchDarkly builds a feature management platform that enables safe and gradual software releases. The company is growing and fosters a humble, open, collaborative culture.

US

  • You'll contribute to infrastructure scaling to infinitely many apps, improving performance and reliability across backend services.
  • You'll support observability efforts, help implement SLOs, and build foundational services for next-generation cloud infrastructure.
  • You'll participate in triage and on-call processes to diagnose issues and implement changes to prevent recurrence.

Bubble is an AI visual development platform that empowers anyone to create software without code, from first-time entrepreneurs to enterprise teams. With over 6 million users in more than 100 countries and a mission to break down barriers to entrepreneurship, the company fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture focused on empowering builders worldwide.

$140,000–$220,000/yr
North America LATAM Europe

  • Own and scale the cloud infrastructure behind our open-source platform: compute, networking, and the data layer.
  • Lead BYOC: turn customer-cloud deployments into a real product, with provisioning, upgrades, and observability that scale past bespoke work per deal.
  • Make reliability a product feature: meaningful SLOs, and an incident process people trust.

Nango is a developer infrastructure company that provides API access for agents and apps, enabling AI applications to connect to the real world through integrations. With over 400 paying customers and a team of 14 from top tech companies like AWS, GitHub, and Okta, they are a YC-backed, multi-million ARR company that values ownership and autonomy.

$116,960–$171,900/yr
US

  • Ship reliable features at scale that deliver the most value to customers by partnering with engineering and product.
  • Perform thorough and thoughtful code reviews to maintain a high standard of code quality.
  • Identify key system metrics and ensure adequate monitoring coverage for new and existing data storage and analytical services.

Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences. They employ thousands of Twilions worldwide and foster a remote-first, antiracist culture that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Portugal Poland

  • Architect context pipelines for AI agents, curating what enters the context window so agents produce reliable, mergeable code.
  • Design and maintain agent-ready systems with well-bounded repos, comprehensive test suites, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Serve as an AI Champion, mentoring engineers on AI-assisted practices and contributing to org-level AI tooling evaluations.

OLX builds marketplace ecosystems enabling millions to buy and sell cars, find homes, land jobs, and trade secondhand goods. Backed by Prosus, the company spans 7 markets with 50+ nationalities and a culture that is ambitious, fast-moving, and built on trust.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, process, and store telemetry at very high scale.
  • Own the reliability, performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage systems.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, help resolve production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes through to completion.

ClickHouse provides a real-time analytics database for data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, it has over 4,000 customers and significant year-over-year growth.

US

  • Build and run monitoring, tracing, and alerting infrastructure to ensure platform reliability and security.
  • Lead incident response and recovery, including root cause analysis, and improve deployment processes for fast, safe code changes.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver a stable, scalable platform and handle load for resource-intensive applications.

WellSaid Labs is the leading AI voiceover studio for enterprise and professional use, providing ultra-realistic voices that the world’s biggest brands trust. We are a fully distributed team across the U.S. with a focus on responsible AI and an inclusive culture.

Global

  • Design, build, and operate Go services powering core APIs and data access paths across HTTP and gRPC.
  • Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of services, including handling growing traffic and data volumes.
  • Contribute to code reviews, technical design discussions, and mentor other engineers to raise the technical bar.

Brightfield provides an AI-powered workforce analytics platform that helps large companies manage their extended workforce. We are a fully remote team of data-driven innovators, trusted by the Global 2000 since 2006.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems powering platform and product capabilities.
  • Own backend services end-to-end, from architecture to monitoring, while collaborating with product and engineering peers.
  • Build and evolve Web3 platform backend components, including protocol integrations and blockchain network support.

Zerion builds backend systems for Web3 infrastructure, powering API and wallet products trusted by 50+ top crypto brands. They have a fully remote team with strong ownership and high code quality, processing over 3.1B requests and supporting 1.7M+ active funded wallets.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Build and deliver AI-powered features that help users manage large datasets and enhance analytics-focused AI agents.
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate with real users, shipping LLM- or agent-driven workflows for data engineering.
  • Collaborate across teams to integrate AI components with internal tools, taking full ownership of scalable solutions.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. It is a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors and known for its open-source legacy and collaborative culture.

$100,000–$120,000/yr
Europe 6w PTO

  • Manage physical "Metal" environments from bare metal to Kubernetes, including cluster networking and scheduling.
  • Maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for cloud service provider resources.
  • Work with application teams to understand needs and invest in right capabilities.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. They are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors, and known for an open-source legacy and global collaborative culture.

$116,960–$146,200/yr
US

  • Design and build robust, scalable backend systems and APIs across Twilio Segment's data platform.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and other engineers to define solutions that balance usability, performance, and long-term architecture.
  • Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, debugging issues and refining operational tooling and processes.

Twilio provides real-time communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better customer experiences. With thousands of employees globally, they foster a remote-first culture focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

US

  • Own the infrastructure end-to-end for ScaleOps' self-hosted and SaaS platforms.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including networking, security, and compute.
  • Collaborate with customers and internal teams to ensure rapid feature delivery without compromising reliability.

ScaleOps is redefining autonomous cloud and AI infrastructure, freeing DevOps from manual resource management. Backed by $210M+ in funding, they are trusted by leading enterprises and Fortune 100 companies, with a fast-paced, innovative culture.